A petition moved before the High Court of Delhi on Thursday asked for the management at the center to modify the “VT” appeal signal written on Indian planes which represent the “Victorian territory” or the “Viceri-Roi territory”, a legacy British raj.
Ashwini Kumar Upadhya lawyer in his plea, said that the prefix “VT” is the nationality code that each plane recorded in India is required to transport. The code is generally visible just before the rear outlet door and above the windows.Upadhyay said that all national airlines have the prefix “VT”, which is followed by unique alphabets that define the plane and to whom it belongs.
He declared that Great Britain created the prefix “VT” for all the colonies in 1929. While countries like China, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka changed their appeal indications after independence , the prefix remained in Indian planes even after 93 years.
“VT is not a symbol of pride but a question of shame, if we still use it when our nation is free,” said Upadhyay.Even our Prime Minister travels to meet world air leaders India a B747-437, with an VT-EVB call indicative. Is the Prime Minister a head of a free democratic country or a territory of viceroy? Pakistan made its call indicative in AP after the bifurcation. Likewise, the Bahamas have changed the sign of “VP-B” in “C6”, Nepal has become “9n”, Sri Lanka from “VP-C” to “4R” and Zimbabwe from “VP-W” to “Z” “”. The advocacy argued.
According to international laws governed by the UN, the plane of each nation must specify the name of the country to which it belongs, using a single alpha-numeric code. The code containing five characters should have two alphabets, that is to say the country’s code (“VT” in the case of India) and the rest shows which company has the plane.Mr. Uapdhyay said that there had been requests for a very long time to change the code because it is a vestige of the colonial regime, but successive governments have done nothing.